Dr. Pamila Keech, director of the Lake Washington Kidney Center in Bellevue, has been named the new medical director of Northwest Kidney Centers’ peritoneal dialysis program.
Earlier she worked as medical director of Northwest Kidney Centers Totem Lake Kidney Center in Kirkland from 1995 to 2003. She also has a private nephrology practice in Bellevue.
She graduated from Loyola Stritch School of Medicine in 1987 and received her fellowship in nephrology from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1992. She is also clinic director for a health care clinic in Sierra Leone, Africa, and was named a Seattle Magazine “Top Doc” in 2004 and 2005.
Dr. Michael Tasch has been named medical director of Snoqualmie Ridge Kidney Center. Dr. Tasch works at Eastside Nephrology and Hypertension, practicing out of its Bellevue office. e graduated in 2000 from UW School of Medicine MSTP program with an M.D. and a Ph.D in immunology. His research focus has been on renal autoimmune disease and the establishment of native tolerance via the expression of kidney proteins in the human thymus, as well as on type 1 diabetes and transplantation rejection, working previously at the UW, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and the Benaroya Research Institute.
Dr. Annemarie Dooley of Bellevue has been named medical director of Lake Washington Kidney Center in Bellevue. Dr. Dooley, a nephrologist at Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue and Evergreen Hospital Medical Center in Kirkland, graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of California Davis in 2001. She has held hospital positions at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle and the Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle.
Trained originally in computer engineering, Dr Dooley worked in Ireland and California before moving to Seattle for residency and nephrology fellowship at the UW.
Northwest Kidney Centers collaborates with UW Medicine in the Kidney Research Institute. Founded in 1962, it was the first out-of-hospital dialysis program in the world.
